in intimate setting

Broadway songwriter and singer, Craig Carnelia, with special
guest Lisa Asher, will perform in an intimate evening of Carnelias
work at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 10, at the New Jersey Performing
Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark. For tickets at $46, call
1-888-466-5722) or visit the NJPAC Box Office at One Center St.,
Newark, or: www.njpac.org. NJPACs series recreates the intimate
setting of a cabaret with bistro-style seating, a cash bar and
other refreshments available for purchase. Composer, lyricist and
singer Carnelia, a New Jersey resident, is one of the newer
generation of Broadway composers. Working with composer Marvin
Hamlisch, Carnelia most recently wrote the lyrics for two Broadway
shows: Imaginary Friends, written with playwright Nora Ephron,
starring Swoosie Kurtz and Cherry Jones, a drama with songs about
literary icons Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy; and the Tony
Award-winning Sweet Smell of Success, written with John Guare,
starring John Lithgow and Brian DArcy James, based on the gritty
1957 film about the underside of celebrity in New York City.
Hamlisch and Carnelia received Drama Desk and Tony Award
nominations for their score for Sweet Smell of Success, and
Carnelia received a Drama Desk nomination for his lyrics in
Imaginary Friends. Carnelia and Hamlisch are at work on another new
musical, an adaptation of Woody Allens 1994 film, Bullets Over
Broadway, to be produced by Marty Richards and Harvey Weinstein,
producers of last years Oscar-winning film, Chicago. Carnelias
career began during the late 1970s and early 1980s, when he
contributed four songs to Studs Terkels Working, for which he
received his first Tony nomination, and wrote the score for the
Broadway musical Is There Life After High School? Asher has
appeared as a featured vocalist and actress in numerous concert and
theatrical venues around the country. She recently starred in the
world premiere of the new musical, Almost Heaven…Songs and Stories
of John Denver. She performed in the off-Broadway hit, Woody
Guthries American Song and later toured with the production.

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